Walmart: We’ve Hired 188,000 Veterans In Four Years

BOWLING GREEN, OH - MAY 17: A Wal-Mart greeter waits to welcome new customers to the new 2,000 square foot Wal-Mart Supercenter store May 17, 2006 in Bowling Green, Ohio. The new store, one of three new supercenters opening today in Ohio, employs 340 people with 60 percent of those working full-time. (Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images)

(CNN Money) — Walmart is well on its way to hiring a quarter million veterans.

The company said Thursday that it’s hired 188,000 veterans since 2013, when it first pledged to hire thousands of ex-military service members.

Of the 188,000 veterans now working for the company, a Walmart spokesperson told CNNMoney, “more than 26,000 have been promoted.”